Hacker News with Generative AI: Astrobiology

Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed (nature.com)
Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft, contain the building blocks for life, NASA announced today.

Science, Space Exploration, Astrobiology, Asteroids

7 points by rbanffy 22 days ago | 0 comments

Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed (nature.com)
Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft, contain the building blocks for life, NASA announced today.

Space Exploration, Astrobiology, Life Origins, Asteroids

12 points by mmooss 23 days ago | 3 comments

Can life emerge around a white dwarf? (centauri-dreams.org)
My curiosity about white dwarfs continues to be piqued by the occasional journal article, like a recent study from Caldon Whyte and colleagues reviewing the possibilities for living worlds around such stars.

Astrobiology, White Dwarfs, Stars

147 points by JPLeRouzic 77 days ago | 98 comments

Garden cress and cyanobacteria grow under simulated K dwarf starlight (cambridge.org)

Astrobiology, Botany, Science, Astronomy

5 points by westcort 127 days ago | 0 comments

Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say (theguardian.com)